arrangement
Other forms: arrangements
When you organize things in an orderly way, the result is called an arrangement. If you admire your friend's arrangement of his living room furniture, you might go home and make a similar arrangement.
Your brother might keep an arrangement of Lego creations on his desk, and you could put an arrangement of wildflowers in a vase in the middle of your kitchen table. Another kind of arrangement is one you make when you negotiate an agreement with another person: "We have an arrangement — she gives me a ride to school and I walk her dog in the afternoon." The Old French root, arengier, means "to set in a row."
Definitions of arrangement
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an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit; the result of arranging“a flower arrangement”types:scaffolda temporary arrangement erected around a building for convenience of workersarrayan orderly arrangementcategorisation, categorization, classificationa group of people or things arranged by class or categoryaestivation, estivation(botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opensvenation(botany) the arrangement of veins in a leafvernation(botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opensformationan arrangement of people or things acting as a unitbacteria orderan order of bacteriaflower chainflowers strung together in a chainsprayflower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliagechaplet, coronal, garland, lei, wreathflower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposesword orderthe order of words in a texttrichotomybeing threefold; a classification into three parts or subclassesflighta formation of aircraft in flightmatrix(mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rulesmilitary formationa formation of troopsbackfieldthe offensive football players who line up behind the linemensecondarythe defensive football players who line up behind the linemenlinea formation of people or things one behind anotherlinea formation of people or things one beside anotherrowa linear array of numbers, letters, or symbols side by sidecolumna vertical array of numbers or other informationgenetic codethe ordering of nucleotides in DNA molecules that carries the genetic information in living cellsgenomethe ordering of genes in a haploid set of chromosomes of a particular organism; the full DNA sequence of an organismseriessimilar things placed in order or happening one after anotherpanoplya complete and impressive arraybankan arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tierscenterthe middle of a military or naval formationheadthe front of a military formation or processionrearthe back of a military formation or processionspectruman ordered array of the components of an emission or wave
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the spatial property of the way in which something is placed“the arrangement of the furniture”synonyms: placementtypes:formationa particular spatial arrangementcolumniation(architecture) the arrangement of columns (especially freestanding columns) in a structurecomposing, compositionthe spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the wholefenestrationthe arrangement of windows in a buildingbalance, proportion, proportionalityharmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)alignmentthe spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel linesmisalignmentthe spatial property of things that are not properly alignedramificationan arrangement of branching partsspacing, spatial arrangementthe property possessed by an array of things that have space between themtandeman arrangement of two or more objects or persons one behind anotherrasterthe rectangular formation of parallel scanning lines that guide the electron beam on a television screen or a computer monitorsplit(tenpin bowling) a divided formation of pins left standing after the first bowltrueproper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignmentopennesswithout obstructions to passage or viewdistancethe property created by the space between two objects or pointsdispersion, distributionthe spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volumecompactness, concentration, denseness, density, tightnessthe spatial property of being crowded togethertype of:position, spatial relationthe spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
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an organized structure for arranging or classifying“he changed the arrangement of the topics”synonyms: organisation, organization, systemtypes:classification systema system for classifying thingscontrivancean artificial or unnatural or obviously contrived arrangement of details or parts etc.coordinate system, frame of reference, reference frame, reference systema system that uses coordinates to establish positiondata structure(computer science) the organization of data (and its storage allocations in a computer)distribution, statistical distribution(statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrencegenetic mapgraphical representation of the arrangement of genes on a chromosomekinship system(anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is used and the reciprocal obligations that are entailedlatticean arrangement of points or particles or objects in a regular periodic pattern in 2 or 3 dimensionsliving arrangementan arrangement to allow people (or ideas) to coexistontology(computer science) a rigorous and exhaustive organization of some knowledge domain that is usually hierarchical and contains all the relevant entities and their relationscalendara system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the yearDewey decimal classification, Dewey decimal system, decimal system of classificationa system used by libraries to classify nonfictional publications into subject categories; the subject is indicated by a three-digit numeral and further specification is given by numerals following a decimal point; publications are shelved by numberCartesian coordinate systema coordinate system for which the coordinates of a point are its distances from a set perpendicular lines that intersect at the origin of the systemequidistributiona flat distribution having equal frequencies of occurrenceBravais lattice, crystal lattice, space latticea 3-dimensional geometric arrangement of the atoms or molecules or ions composing a crystalhierarchical data structure, hierarchical structurea structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structurehierarchical classification systema classification system where entries are arranged based on some hierarchical structureABO blood group system, ABO group, ABO systema classification system for the antigens of human blood; used in blood transfusion therapy; four groups are A and B and AB and Olayouta plan or design of something that is laid outinertial frame, inertial reference framea coordinate system in which Newton's first law of motion is validspace-time, space-time continuumthe four-dimensional coordinate system (3 dimensions of space and 1 of time) in which physical events are locatedfrequency distributiona distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variablePoisson distributiona theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is largesample, sample distribution, samplingitems selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the populationBernoulli distribution, binomial distributiona theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of successlunar calendara calendar based on lunar cycleslunisolar calendara calendar based on both lunar and solar cyclessolar calendara calendar based on solar cyclestype of:structurethe complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations
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the thing arranged or agreed to“they made arrangements to meet in Chicago”synonyms: agreementtypes:collusionsecret agreementprearrangementsomething arranged in advancereservationsomething reserved in advance (as a hotel accommodation or a seat on a plane etc.)type of:planning, preparation, provisionthe cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening
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a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instrumentssynonyms: musical arrangementtypes:orchestrationan arrangement of a piece of music for performance by an orchestra or bandinstrumentationthe instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestratype of:
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the act of arranging and adapting a piece of musicsynonyms: arranging, transcriptiontypes:rearrangementchanging an arrangementinstrumentation, orchestrationthe act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instrumentsorchestrationan arrangement of events that attempts to achieve a maximum effectmusical chairsa rearrangement that has no practical effect or significancereorderinga rearrangement in a different ordertransposition(electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductancetype of:
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